[Commlist] Stonewall 50: Toronto Queer Film Festival & Symposium

*Stonewall 50: Toronto Queer Film Festival & Symposium*
November 7-10, 2019
Jackman Hall and OCAD University
Toronto, Ontario
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*_Registration for the symposium is required 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/full-symposium-pass/>_*
Sliding scale general admission full symposium pass: $40-$60
Full-time permanent faculty/donors/supporters full symposium pass: $200
Day passes: $10-$20 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product-category/2019/symposiums-workshops-2019/day-passes/>
*No one turned away for lack of funds*

This year the Toronto Queer Film Festival commemorates 50 years of 
impolite and uncompromising queer defiance with its theme Stonewall 50.

While the Stonewall Uprising is often characterized as the “birth” of a 
western LGBT civil rights movement, we remember Stonewall as a site of 
queer and trans rebellion against a long history of state violence and 
neglect that continues to this day.

Highlighting connections between the past, present, and future of queer 
revolution and resistance, the 2019 Toronto Queer Film Festival 
showcases cutting-edge queer short and feature films. In addition to the 
festival, TQFF is hosting a Stonewall 50 symposium, a unique gathering 
of artists, critics, scholars, and performers from across Canada and 
around the globe to discuss the future of queer and trans media arts 
activism. Full schedule for the symposium is copied below.

*Accessibility
*All TQFF events are “pay what you can” and are wheelchair accessible. 
All screenings will be closed-captioned and/or ASL-interpreted. Both of 
our locations will have a prearranged waiting area with seating for 
audience members who need it prior to the doors opening for every event.
Both venues have gender neutral washrooms.

TQFF also wishes to thank our symposium partners for their support this 
year: York University Sexuality Studies Program, University of Toronto 
Centre for Comparative Literature, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual 
Diversity Studies, and the Film Studies Association of Canada


Friday, November 8, 2019

Session 1 (2pm-4pm) Migration & Diaspora 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/symposium-migration-diaspora-nov-8-2pm/>

Jaya Jacobo, A Transfeminist Critique of Gender in the Global South: Two 
Cinematic Instances from the Philippines

Yara El Safi, Steps into Fire

Gregorio Pablo Rodríguez-Arbolay Jr., Homonationalism & Queer of Colour 
Cultural Representation in Post-Referendum Québec


Session 2 (4pm-6pm) Keynote: Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/symposium-we-have-always-been-here-nov-8-4pm/>

Moderated by Laila Malik


Saturday, November 9, 2019

Session 3 (11am-1pm) Being Other Elsewhere 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/symposium-being-other-elsewhere-nov-9-11am/>

Daniel Zacariotti and Anelise Molina, Bixa Travesty - struggle and 
celebration of the woman's cock

Abdullah Qureshi, Traversing Darkrooms: The Lure Of The Glory Hole

Balca Arda, A Match Boy in Toronto


Lunch (1pm-2pm)


Session 4 (2pm-4pm) Don’t Believe the ‘69 Hype! 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/symposium-dont-believe-the-69-hype/>

Ryan Conrad, Andil Gosine, Tom Hooper, and Emma McKenna


Session 5 (4pm-6pm) Reaching Toward the Horizon: The Futures of Queer 
Cinema 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/symposium-reaching-toward-the-horizon-the-futures-of-queer-cinema-nov-9-4pm/>

Elegance Bratton, Jesse Rovenelli, and Michelle Mohabeer

Moderated by Maude Matton


Sunday, November 10, 2019

Session 6 (11am-1pm) Digital Memories 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/symposium-digital-memories-nov-10-11am/>

Stefanie Duguay, Parties no one will raid: Homonormative LGBTQ social 
organizing in the gig economy

Mx. Dietrich Squinkifer (AKA Squinky), How Making Videogames Turned Me 
Into a Depressed Gay Communist

Ali Adenwala, Fragments of a Shattered Urn: Queering the Map, Collective 
Memory, and the Globalization of the Stonewall Myth


Lunch (1pm-2pm)


Session 7 (2pm-4pm) Fuck the Police 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/symposium-fuck-the-police-nov-10-2pm/>

Jordana Greenblatt, Hey, Pig

Ronald Cummings, Montreal 1969: Black and Queer Archives Revisited

Cheryl Thompson, From BLMTO to Marci Ien: The Misrepresention of Police 
Violence Against Black Women


Session 8 (4pm-6pm) Closing Keynote: Art & Activism at the End of the 
World 
<https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/product/symposium-art-activism-at-the-end-of-the-world-nov-10-4pm/>

In conversation with Natalie Kouri-Towe and Natalie Loveless


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